Hong Kong Ordinances

HOUSING MANAGERS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 19

Removal of name from the register

(Past version on 26/11/1999).

(1) The Registrar may remove the name of a registered professional 
housing manager from the register if he has notice that the registered 
professional housing manager has-

   (a)  died;

   (b)  applied to discontinue his registration;

   (c)  in the opinion of the Board, ceased to be ordinarily resident in Hong
        Kong;

   (d)  failed to renew his registration;

   (e)  ceased to hold a qualification by virtue of which he was registered;
        or

   (f)  failed to notify a change of particulars required under section  11
        (3).

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(c), if it appears to the Board that a
registered professional housing manager has been absent from Hong Kong for a
continuous period of 2 years or more, the Board need not consider him to be
ordinarily resident in Hong Kong.

(3) Subject to section 26(2), the Registrar shall remove a name from the
register if he receives an order of the Court of Final Appeal, the Court of
Appeal or an inquiry committee directing that the name be removed from the
register. (Amended 10 of 2005 s. 126)

(4) Where the Registrar intends to remove the name of a registered 
professional housing manager from the register under subsection (1)(c),

   (d)  , (e) or (f), he shall send notice of his intention by prepaid
        registered post to the registered address of the
        registered professional  housing manager and shall not remove his name
        until the expiry of a period of 28 days after the date of posting the
        notice.

(5) If the Registrar gives notice to a registered professional 
housing manager that-

   (a)  the Board is of the opinion that he is not ordinarily resident in Hong
        Kong and, before the Registrar acts to remove his name from the
        register, the registered professional housing manager satisfies the
        Board that he is ordinarily resident in Hong Kong;

   (b)  he has not applied to renew his registration and, before the Registrar
        acts to remove his name from the register, the registered 
        professional housing manager properly applies to renew his
        registration;

   (c)  he has ceased to hold a qualification by virtue of which he was
        registered and, before the Registrar acts to remove his name from the
        register, the registered professional housing manager satisfies the
        Board that he holds the qualification; or

   (d)  he has failed to notify a change in particulars required under
        section 11(3) and, before the Registrar acts to remove his name from
        the register, the registered professional housing manager takes such
        action as will remedy the defect in the register, the Registrar shall
        not remove the name from the register for the reason set out in the
        notice referred to in subsection (4).

(6) If the name of a registered professional housing manager is removed from
the register, his registration is to be cancelled and he shall return any
certificate issued in respect of his registration to the Registrar.

(7) The Board shall not be liable to refund to a person any fee, or any part
of any fee, on the removal of his name from the register.

(8) The Registrar may correct any error apparent on the face of the register.